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Former local promoter Tommie Gonzalez gives buzzing Norwegian bands a home at his label
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Jan 30, 2013 3:33pmTommie Gonzalez’s road to starting a record label began with a skateboard magazine.Anyone who grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s may recall Thrasher, the Rolling Stone of skate mags. Buried among...
Someone Sent Us This: Earth Rising
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 16, 2013 4:24pmEarth Rising, Constant Movement (self-released)I know nothing about Earth Rising besides what I’ve just learned by listening to the local quintet’s sophomore release, Constant Movement. What you’ll...
Sounds from the underground: The future of electronic dance music in Las Vegas
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Jan 23, 2013 4:28pmThe bass drops. It’s the first dubstep song of the night, emerging from a sludge of mashups and reappropriated soul breaks. The crowd cheers, boozy perspiration rising to varnish The Griffin back...
Someone Sent Us This: Chandelle’s ‘Cheatgrass Prison’
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 09, 2013 5:00pmChandelleCheatgrass Prison (Devil’s Tower)Chandelle Gleed’s solo project is a big step forward from her work with Vitamin Overdose. Whereas the latter was dirty, intentionally dragging and lo-fi duo...
Anywhere but here: Is touring the answer for ambitious local bands?
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Jan 10, 2013 4:35pmWe’re going to drop some brain bombs right now. No band becomes an internationally touring sensation by never leaving Las Vegas. That isn’t to say it won’t be known. Weirder things have happened than...
Review: The Killers exhibit performance chops, excessive zeal at Cosmo show
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 6:01pmThe Killers have evolved into a well-oiled, intuitive and assured live act and, gripes aside, its sold-out Cosmopolitan debut inside the awkwardly laid-out Chelsea Ballroom on Dec. 28 was the Vegas...
Review: The Black Keys lack energy in NYE show
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 5:54pmMaybe I was expecting too much of the show, this Black Keys performance at The Joint on New Year’s Eve. As if they’d somehow top Stevie Wonder’s barn-burner at The Cosmopolitan last year. But neither...
Music headlines we hope to write in 2013
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 4:41pmDaft Punk to headline Electric Daisy CarnivalCity, county relax restrictions on all-ages venue licensesNeon Reverb gets stage at Life is Beautiful festA Crowd of Small Adventures signs with Sub...
Someone Sent Us This: The Burning Symphony
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 4:07pmThe Burning SymphonyDelusions of Sexual Grandeur (National Southwestern)For background, The Burning Symphony is Wyatt McKenzie’s noticeably heavier, straightforward three-piece rock project with...
The best local performances and albums of 2012
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Dec 26, 2012 5:10pmIt was a less noisy Vegas music scene in 2012. Bands broke up or gigged too sporadically. Musicians moved. Albums got shorter. Neon Reverb downscaled. But there were some bright spots for sure.LOCAL...
